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November 02, 2016

All Souls' Day: Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano.

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Lowry's great novel about an alcoholic British consul in a small Mexican town was published in 1947. The story is set on All Souls' Day--or the Day of the Dead--on November 2, 1938 in Quauhnahuac, Mexico.

Posted by JD Hull at 04:49 PM | Comments (0)